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[ILUG] treatise on non-free/binary only drivers

[ILUG] treatise on non-free/binary only drivers

Murf xcraft at eircom.net
Thu Sep 2 23:27:14 IST 2004


On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, John P. Looney wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:46:15PM +0100, Liam Bedford mentioned:
> > It is thus in the interest of all users to discourage proprietary
> > modules. It is not a question of irrational allergies to end-user
> > license agreements or free software fundamentalism; it is, instead, a
> > matter of creating the most stable and capable kernel possible.
>
>  I suppose that is the core of the argument;
>     do you want the most stable and capable kernel, or the most usable one.
>
> John
>

It'd be usable today, but possibly not tommorrow.




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